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Two minors sexually active laws in Alaska, age 16?

What are Alaska's sex laws, when two minors are sexually active? 16 years old. Both willing. Now she's pregnant.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Legally, the issue you are asking about is, "Is sex between two 16-year-olds consideed statutory rape?" And in Alaska it is not. Many states have a hard-line in the sand (over 18s can't have sex with under 18's, for instance. Even someone 18 years and a day having intercourse with someone 17 years and 11 months), but Alaska builds in a 3-year gap for statutory rape laws.

    Both 16 - okay

    One 14, one 16 - okay

    One 17 and one 13 - not okay. The 17-year-old could be tried and convicted if anyone complained. Who might complain? The 13-year-old, her parents, his parents, the next-door neighbor, etc. Here's a link on that:

    http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:MZ2s80iECFMJ:...

    The bigger issue is the pregnancy. What are you going to do about that? Go watch the movie "Juno"? Better idea: call Planned Parenthood. They aren't pro-abortion, they are pro-choice. They will lay our your options about raising the child, placing it in adoption, or aborting the pregnancy. It is the girl's choice. But, by being pregnant, she is now "emancipated" for the purposes of medical care. She can make her own decisions as an adult would.

    Don't worry about telling PP you're pregnant because you're under 18. Or for any reason. They hear these stories all the time and lay out the options for pregnant teens all the time. There are a few medical-abortion (drugs, not surgery) providers throughout the state but NOT in every city. Fewer options for surgical abortions (required for later-term pregnancies) but there are some and PP can explain those options.

    Source(s): I live in Alaska and know doctors, nurses and aids who work at PP.
  • 1 decade ago

    Now is not the time to worry about the law of consent. If you really must know, go to www.alaska.gov and find the link to the state laws.

    You need to be focused on what to do about the pregnancy instead. Do the teens wish to get married? Do they want to be responsible and raise the child, put the child up for adoption or terminate the pregnancy?

    Either way, the teens parents should be informed about what is going on.

  • 5 years ago

    i grew to become into 13 and that i'm 15 now nevertheless sexually energetic. a million of my 2 terrific friends has been sexually energetic when you consider that 12. so 2 out of three females have been sexually energetic when you consider that age 13-sixteen i'm 15 now and she or he's sixteen now. I believes that's equivalent yet i in my opinion know extra sexually energetic men around my age then sexually energetic females. and the two me and my terrific chum have had unprotected intercourse. i've got in undemanding terms been with 2 men. And the two have been long term relationships. i'm on my third boyfriend, that i in my opinion count quantity, and plan on having intercourse with sometime interior the destiny (we've not been collectively long sufficient..." maximum women that do lose their virginity around 13/14 we becuase it grew to become into their first boyfriend and did no longer wat to lose him. i'm gonna pass away out thoughts although. My opinion in this subject count number is maximum women sense forced to have intercourse with a guy they have been with for a whilst at those an prolonged time and are scared to lose them so as that they provide in to have intercourse. men sense tension from different men approximately being virgin while all their friends say they are no longer while a million/2 probable are. Eh. that's all I even have for now.

  • 1 decade ago

    So abort. Sex is a basic pleasure of life and humans are biologically able to have children at even younger ages. The age shouldn't increase for the age of consent, you have 16 years up to they are legally allowed to have sex for moral enlightenment. Make use of it.

    Source(s): Human truth
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